Jeff Fahey

Jeffrey David Fahey is an American actor. His notable roles include Duane Duke in Psycho III, Pete Verill in Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart, Jobe Smith in The Lawnmower Man, and Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost. He is also known for his collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez, appearing in his films Planet Terror, Machete, and Alita: Battle Angel.

Early life and education

Fahey was born in Olean, New York, the sixth of 13 siblings in an Irish-American family. His mother, Jane, was a homemaker, and his father, Frank Fahey, worked at a clothing store. Fahey was raised in Buffalo, New York, from the age of ten and attended Father Baker's high school there. Fahey left home at the age of 17, subsequently hitchhiking to Alaska. He later backpacked through Europe, and worked on an Israeli kibbutz. He married Rosetta Faye Harris in 1984.

Career

Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25. He performed in theaters across the United States and on Broadway. He landed his first major role on television playing Gary Corelli on the soap opera, One Life to Live.
In 1985, he received his first major film role as Tyree in Silverado. In 1986, he co-starred with Anthony Perkins in Psycho III as Duane Duke, a money-desperate guitarist who is hired by Norman Bates to work at the Bates Motel. That same year, Fahey guest starred on the Season 3 premiere of Miami Vice as gun dealer Eddie Kaye, famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona.
In 1990, Fahey starred in Impulse and White Hunter Black Heart, respectively directed by feuding ex-couple Sondra Locke and Clint Eastwood. Also that year, he played the title role in the TV movie Parker Kane alongside Marisa Tomei. In 1992, he starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in The Lawnmower Man. In 1995, Fahey was the lead in the Trimark Pictures adventure film Eye of the Wolf, directed by Arnaud Sélignac, based on the book "KAZAN" by James Oliver Curwood.
In 1995, he starred as "Winston McBride" on ABC's The Marshal. In 1999, he played the main character in Apocalypse II: Revelation. In 2007, he appeared in the Robert Rodriguez film Planet Terror and starred in Messages with Bruce Payne.
Fahey appeared as daredevil Dutch the Clutch in an episode of Psych at the beginning of the third season of the show.
Fahey played Frank Lapidus, the airplane and helicopter pilot of the research team sent to the island in Lost, as a recurring character in the fourth and fifth seasons, and as a regular character in the sixth season.
In 2010, he had a major role in Robert Rodriguez's action film Machete.
In 2013, a new production of the classic play Twelve Angry Men took place at the Garrick Theatre in London, running until March 2014. Fahey played the part of the last juror in the story to change his vote to not guilty. Other notable actors appearing in this production were Martin Shaw who played the part of juror number 8, Robert Vaughn and Nick Moran.
In 2015, Jeff Fahey starred in History Channel's mini-series Texas Rising as Tom Rusk, the Secretary of War for the new Republic of Texas who fought alongside General Sam Houston.
In 2017, Jeff Fahey joined the UK tour of Bill Kenwright's production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man where he plays the part of US Presidential hopeful Joseph Cantwell against political rival William Russell, played by Martin Shaw.

Humanitarian efforts

In 2006 and 2007, Fahey spent time in Afghanistan assisting the newly established American University of Afghanistan and launching a project to assist orphans in Kabul.
Fahey's recent humanitarian work has revolved around the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, focusing on the subject of warehousing, a practice in which the rights and mobility of refugees are restricted by a host country. Fahey's work specifically has addressed the subject of warehoused Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.

Filmography

Film

1985 Silverado as Deputy Tyree
1986 Psycho III as Duane Duke
1987 Riot on 42nd St. as Frank Tackler
1988 Backfire as Donnie McAndrew
1988 Split Decisions as Ray McGuinn
1989 True Blood as Raymond Trueblood
1989 Minnamurra as Ben Creed
1989 The Serpent of Death as Jake Bonner
1990 The Last of the Finest as Detective Ricky Rodriguez
1990 Impulse as Stan Harris
1990 White Hunter Black Heart as Pete Verrill
1991 Body Parts as Dr. Bill Chrushank
1991 Iron Maze as Barry Mikowski
1992 The Lawnmower Man as Jobe Smith
1993 The Hit List as Charlie Pike
1993 Quick as Muncie
1994 Woman of Desire as Jack Lynch
1994 Freefall as Dex Dellum
1994 Wyatt Earp as Ike Clanton
1994 Temptation as Eddie Lanarsky
1995 Serpent's Lair as Tom Bennett
1996 Darkman III: Die Darkman Die as Peter Rooker
1996 Lethal Tender as Detective David Chase
1996 Small Time as The Dutchman
1996 The Sweeper as Dale Goddard
1997 Catherine's Grove as Jack Doyle
1997 The Underground as Brian Donnegan
1997 Time Under Fire as Alan Deakins / John Deakins
1998 Extramarital as Griffin
1998 Detour as Danny Devlin
1999 The Last Siege: Never Surrender as Eddie Lyman
1999 When Justice Fails as Tom Chaney
1999 Apocalypse II: Revelation as Thorold Stone
1999 No Tomorrow as Davis
1999 Dazzle as The Collector
1999 The Contract as Detective Tucci
2000 Epicenter as FBI Agent Moore
2000 The Sculptress as Matthew Dobie
2000 The Newcomers as Mack Weatherton
2000 Spin Cycle as Vinnie "Tall Vinnie"
2001 Blind Heat as Paul Burke
2001 Out There as Agent Gary Booth
2001 Cold Heart as Dr. Phil Davis
2001 Maniacts as Joe Spinelli
2001 Outlaw as Jim Moran
2001 Choosing Matthias as Charlie
2002 Inferno as Robert "Jake" Wheeler
2002 Unspeakable as The Governor
2002 Fallen Angels as Professor Richard Leighton
2004 Ghost Rock as Moses Logan
2004 No Witness as Senator Gene Haskell
2004 Close Call as Elliot Krasner
2004 Darkhunters as Mr. Barlow
2004 Blue Demon as General Remora
2004 Day of Redemption as Frank Everly
2004 Corpses as Captain Winston
2005 Killing Cupid as The Trainer
2005 Split Second as Mr. Kudis
2006 Only the Brave as Lieutenant William Terry
2006 Scorpius Gigantus as Major Nick Reynolds
2006 The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point as Colonel Halloran
2007 Diablita as Bill Rockwell
2007 Messages as Dr. Richard Murray
2007 Planet Terror as J.T. Hague
2008 Matchmaker Mary as Cameron Banks
2010 Machete as Michael Booth
2010 Terror Trap as Sheriff Cleveland
2011 Blacktino as Cooter
2011 Marriage Retreat as Craig Sullivan
2011 Dadgum, Texas as Robert E Lee Magee
2012 Eldorado as "Doc" Martin
2012 Easy Rider: The Ride Back as Wes Coast
2012 Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood as Devil Anse Hatfield
2012 Sushi Girl as Morris
2012 Guns, Girls and Gambling as The Cowboy
2013 100 Below Zero as Steve Foster
2013 Beneath as George Marsh
2014 The Last Light as Harold
2014 Dawn Patrol as "Trick"
2015 Skin Traffik as Jacob Andries
2015 Too Late as Roger
2015 Confident
2016 Urge as Gerald
2016 The Hollow as Darryl Everett
2017 County Line as Clint Thorne
2018 American Dresser as Calhoun
2019 Alita: Battle Angel as McTeague
2019 Santa Fake as Jim Kelly
2019 Badland as Huxley Wainwright
2019 Intrigo: Samaria as Jacob
2020 Beckman as Philip
2021 A Bird Flew In as Peter
2022 The Long Night as Wayne
2022 Maneater as Professor Hoffman
2022 Battle For Saipan as Colonel Jake Carroll
2023 Hypnotic as Carl
2023 Ruthless as Dale
2023 One Year Off as Ben Katsman
2023 Due Justice as Ellis
2024 Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 as Tracker
Television
1984 One Life to Live as Gary Corelli
1985 The Execution of Raymond Graham as Raymond Graham
1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ray Lee
1986 Miami Vice as Eddie Kaye
1990 Curiosity Kills as Matthew Manus
1990 Parker Kane as Parker Kane
1992 Sketch Artist as Detective Jack Whitfield
1993 In the Company of Darkness as Will McCaid
1993 Blindsided as Frank McKenna
1995 Eye of the Wolf as Paul Weyman
1995 Sketch Artist II: Hands That See as Detective Jack Whitfield
1995 Virtual Seduction as Liam Bass
1995 The Marshal as Deputy Marshal Winston MacBride
1996 Every Woman's Dream as Mitch Parker
1997 Operation Delta Force as Captain Lang
1997 Perversions of Science as The Bearded Man
1997 On the Line as Detective Dan Collins
1997 Johnny 2.0 as Johnny Dalton
1999 The Seventh Scroll as Nick Harper
1999 Time Served as Patrick Berlington
2001 Nash Bridges as Nelson Collins
2004 Crossing Jordan as Bounty Hunter
2004 American Dreams as Stevens
2005 Icon as Harvey Blackledge
2005 Crimson Force as Older Man
2005 Locusts: The 8th Plague as Russ Snow
2005 Manticore as Major Spence Kramer
2006 Absolute Zero as Dr. David Kotzman
2006 The Eden Formula as Dr. Harrison Parker
2008 Psych as Dutch "The Clutch"
2008 The Cleaner as Quinn
2008 Criminal Minds as Leo Kane
2008-2010 Lost as Frank Lapidus
2009 Cold Case as Darren Malloy '09
2009 CSI: Miami as Allen Pierce
2011 Law & Order: LA as Terry Briggs
2011 Chuck as Karl Sneijder
2011 Workaholics as Doug
2012 Alien Tornado as Judd Walker
2012 Lake Effects as Ray
2012 Femme Fatales as Detective McAllister
2012 Common Law as Dan Noone
2012 Revolution as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson
2012 The Sacred as George
2013 Hawaii Five-0 as Dr. Brian Stevens
2013 Under the Dome as Sheriff Howard "Duke" Perkins
2013 Rewind as Ellis
2015 Justified as Zachariah
2015 Grimm as Elder Bowden
2015 The Librarians as Isaac Stone
2016 Scorpion as Kenneth Dodd
2016 Atomic Shark as Rottger
2016 Legends of Tomorrow as Quentin Turnbull
2017 Training Day as Pike
2019 NCIS: New Orleans as Sheriff / Mayor
2019 Wu Assassins as Jack
2023 Fire Country as Walter Leone